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Edcamp Finds a New Home at Digital Promise

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is incredibly excited to welcome the Edcamp Foundation to our family of projects and programs. By fully merging our operations, we believe we can do even more to support the community of educators who organize and attend Edcamps across the United States and around the world.

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Connecting Personalized Professional Learning to a Bigger Purpose

The Principal of Change

When I think about how to effectively empower educators to create personalized professional learning for themselves, I often think of Google’s “20% time”, where employees had 20% of their own time to move forward Google as an organization. “We Let’s start with the second point first.

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

I started this program in the summer of 2017. Jody: We started in August of this year, so August 2017. Or maybe they’re happy in their classroom now being a teacher, but all all of them are either attaining or will be looking for jobs this spring. So Jody, tell us a little bit about what you’re doing. Jody: Thank you, Vicki!

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Let us face it, these motivational tricks also work well in the classroom to motivate students to learn. If extra recess or additional time playing Minecraft work well for students, would it make sense that there is merit in incentivizing professional development for adult learners? What is professional development?

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Let us face it, these motivational tricks also work well in the classroom to motivate students to learn. If extra recess or additional time playing Minecraft work well for students, would it make sense that there is merit in incentivizing professional development for adult learners? What is professional development?

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

Edsurge

The future, and increasingly the present, of educator professional development is predicated upon insights and resources shared within professional learning communities. Many left the classroom and are now evangelizing the power of social media and education around the world and during conferences like ISTE. Participate.

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Year of #SayingYes

EdTechTeam

Through much contemplation, mindfulness meditation, and general clarity - I’ve decided that this year, 2017-2018, is going to be the year of #sayingyes. I’m in the midst of my eleventh year in the classroom and have always been a hyper-focused educator. To essentially say yes to learning! Yes to new experiences. And yes to me.

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